Turn on web search

TALOS has no index of the web, so it asks a search service. Only the query leaves the phone; the pages themselves are downloaded and read on the phone, and their sources saved in your Library.

Choose a service

Open Settings → Search engine and pick one:

Service	What it needs	Worth knowing
Tavily	An API key	1,000 searches a month at no cost, no card required. Built for agents.
Brave Search	An API key	An independent index; a card is required. Brave does not let TALOS save its results, so TALOS opens the sources it uses instead.
SearXNG	Your instance’s address	No third party sees the query. Turn on JSON output in the instance’s settings, or TALOS gets a web page back.
Custom endpoint	An address	Any search API that answers with a top-level results list.
DuckDuckGo	Nothing	No key and no account; not an official API, so under heavy use it can answer with a block — and TALOS says so.

Paste the key, or the address, and save it. The panel then says where things stand: Ready, a key or an address still needed, or blocked by a permission.

Let the query leave

A search sends its words off the phone, so it needs the off-device power, in Settings → Agent Tools:

• on Ask me every time, the first search asks, and you can grant it once or for good;
• on Always allow, searches run without asking;
• on Never allow, no search runs — even with a key saved.

Search and page reading also save their sources in the Library, so they need Create or change things as well.

Turn it off

Turn web search off removes the service: TALOS stops offering web search to the model. Forget the key removes the key from the phone; turning search back on then needs a new one.